Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization (CTO)
The CTO Division primarily encourages professional scholarship in the fields of organizational communication and information systems among members. The specific domain CTO deals with the study of behavioral, economic, and social aspects of communication and information systems within and among organizations or institutions.
1570 Members
Division
Officers
- Chair Susan Winter
- Chair-Elect Roberta Bernardi
- Program Chair Steven Lawrence Johnson
- PDW Chair Elisa Mattarelli
- Past Chair Nicholas Berente
Domain Statement
Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization promotes an interdisciplinary approach to further the understanding of the behavioral, social, and economic processes at the intersection of communication, technology, and organizing. CTO emphasizes communication topics that reflect changes in the contemporary nature of work enabled through the use of mainstream and emerging technologies and systems. It constitutes a vibrant, inclusive, and intellectually stimulating community, open to scholars from a wide range of disciplines, theoretical frameworks, and research methods, who are conducting novel and cutting-edge research based on rigorous and creative scholarship. Major topics of interest integrate some combination of communication, technology, and organizing and include: artificial intelligence; changing nature of work; computational and data science; knowledge work on digital platforms; digital transformation; distributed and virtual work; IT diffusion and infrastructure; new organizational forms such as global teams, online communities, and digital social networks; organizational change; organizational design and strategy; organizational innovation; platform governance; processes of digitalization; the quantified self; sharing economy; user-generated content and social media.